Ronnie Ortiz-Magro has promised that Jersey Shore's forthcoming fifth season will be "fun".

The new season of the MTV reality series will see the cast back in New Jersey and will feature far less aggression and fighting than season four's antics in Italy, according to Ortiz-Magro.

"You're gonna see a lighter side of us in Jersey," he told MTV News of the new episodes.

"We have a lot more fun as compared to Italy. People were fighting, running heads into walls, bottles being thrown - it was just a lot of drama. Jersey is going to be a lot more fun."

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Castmate Pauly D echoed Ortiz-Magro's sentiments, adding: "You'll actually see how much we miss Jersey. We missed it so much, we just hit the ground running. The second we got back from Italy, we went straight to Jersey and just had fun with it."

Earlier this week, a new season five preview was released ahead of Jersey Shore's January 5 premiere.